In a major leadership change at one of legal technology’s largest companies, Chris Cartrett will step down as president and CEO of Aderant, effective Aug. 1, the company announced today.
He is leaving the legal industry to become chief executive officer of ImageTrend, a provider of software and data analytics for emergency medical services, fire departments, hospitals, and public…
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We asked Chris Cartrett and Josiah Chaves about the new opportunity and implications for existing customers. Aderant’s president & chief executive officer Chris Cartrett is to step down in August […]
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Last September, when the company 8am — having successfully pulled off a major rebrand just three weeks earlier — then went on to pull off its first-ever customer conference in Austin, I wrote a review giving it high praise.
Although that inaugural event was modest in size, it was big in energy, as well as highly polished and professional,…
Continue Reading Exclusive: As Its Kaleidoscope Conference Returns for Year Two, 8am Trades Austin’s Cowboy Boots for the Las Vegas Strip — And Books the Savannah Bananas’ Founder As Keynote

We’ve spent years obsessing over AI benchmarks, workplace automation, and chatbot hallucinations. But while we were looking at the future of work, artificial intelligence quietly invaded the foundations of democratic society: the legal system. Today, we’re unpacking a tectonic shift with the Professor. AI isn’t just summarizing case law anymore; it’s entering the realm of judicial reasoning, predictive outcomes, and…
Continue Reading Superjustice or Algorithm Tyranny? How AI is Rewriting the Rule of Law with Professor Benjamin Alarie

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division has announced that the United States will pay approximately $17 million to resolve claims brought by nearly 630 plaintiffs arising from the Red Hill jet fuel spills, a significant development in the long-running legal fallout from the Hawaii fuel contamination crisis.

The settlement stands out not only because of the dollar amount, but…
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In the latest episode of The Inside View with Legal IT Insider, Elliot White from Addleshaw Goddard joins editor Caroline Hill for a candid discussion about what the firm has […]
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Predictions about artificial intelligence often focus on job losses and shrinking demand for lawyers. Filevine CEO and co-founder Ryan Anderson and product manager John Rizner offer a sharply different forecast. Drawing on the Jevons paradox, they argue greater efficiency will make legal services accessible to more people, encourage deeper legal research, and create work once excluded by cost. AI might…
Continue Reading Why AI Will Create More Legal Work, Not Less: Filevine’s Rizner and Anderson on Research, Access, and Human Judgment

State lawmakers and regulators are continuing to fill the AI-policy vacuum, and the latest moves in Illinois and California could have immediate consequences for how lawyers, law departments, and neutrals use generative AI in practice.

Illinois recently enacted a broad AI framework, adding to the growing patchwork of state-level rules that can affect businesses well beyond state borders. At the…
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Which AI models are actually best at legal work? A new platform launched in beta by the alternative legal services provider Percipient aims to answer that question by letting legal professionals put the models to the test themselves, in blind, head-to-head comparisons, and all at no cost.
The platform, Certera.AI, lets a user submit a legal prompt and receive…
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The Tenth Circuit’s July 6, 2026 opinion in 25-2052 is a useful reminder that appellate outcomes often turn as much on standards of review and issue preservation as on the underlying merits. Although the docket entry is captioned simply as “Opinion,” the decision appears to focus on how the court evaluates the district court’s ruling, what arguments were properly preserved,…
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R&D & AI INNOVATION

How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption
R&D performance, Q1 FY2025 through Q2 FY2026
By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera

Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference in Silicon Valley knowing that how we built software was about to change completely. We had just seen a demo of…
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